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Edwynn -> RE: Brtitish History as Ametica understands it ? (4/2/2011 10:02:30 AM)
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In case it might have escaped notice heretofore, the original OP pressed others as to their 'understanding' of British history. Putting aside for the moment that the British have historically displayed every evidence of lacking ability to understand much of anything outside their own immediate ends, let's investigate why the question was never rendered as "what do Americans understand about history of other countries?"
"The apple falling not far from the tree" comes first to mind here, but that aside, let's just press further into the matter, which fixation on the "super power du jure" will not accomplish much, and delve into the world as it exists now and has done so for millennia, however they might have accomplished that in the absence of the unquestionably superior British education and culture.
How much do Indonesians know of British history?
My current study has to do with developmental economics, and from all empirical evidence that I've seen so far, the rate of success has much to do with lack of exogenous influence.
Let us now praise these small country's ignorance of British history.
Too bad the US could not find their way to greater separation, all I can say.
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